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Time to Remember, A (1959)

Subject

Film studies; History

British Pathé has re-released all 39 episodes of the classic 1959 documentary series TIME TO REMEMBER, unabridged and in HD for the first time. The series presents scenes from life at the turn of the...

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London Symphony: A Poetic Journey Through the Life of a City (2017)

Director

Alex Barrett

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £12.00

The ‘city symphony’ became a popular type of urban documentary during the last decade of the silent era. LONDON SYMPHONY pays homage to that subgenre. Its director, Alex Barrett, shot the film silent,...

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Between Two Rivers (1960)

Director

Dennis Potter

Producer

Anthony de Lotbiniere

Subject

Media studies; Television studies

Dennis Potter’s debut, not as a playwright, but as a documentary maker, sees him return to the Forest of Dean having being trained by BBC documentary maker Denis Mitchell. During the course of the film,...

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Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary - Special Edition (2009)

Director

Pepita Ferrari

Subject

Film studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (97 minutes), $22.46

From cinema-vérité pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick moviemakers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world’s best documentarians reflect upon the unique power...

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Science on Film Project (2008)

Subject

Media studies; Science

The Science on Film initiative, run by the Wellcome Trust and the Documentary Filmmakers Group, was a unique opportunity for film-makers and biomedical scientists to collaborate on an intensive film...

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Historical Disasters: Black Christmas (2012)

Subject

History

This documentary tells the story of the Pretoria Pit Disaster of 21 December 1910 in which 344 men and boys died, after an explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit, near Bolton, Lancashire. The film...

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Radical Archaeology Television Parody (2007)

Director

Bradley Garrett; Adam Fish

Subject

Archaeology; Media studies

A 5-minute parody of the television series DIGGING FOR THE TRUTH, which is broadcast by the History Channel. The episode parodied is MYSTERY OF THE ANASAZI. In the light-hearted commentary, Bradley Garrett...

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Remarkable Miss North, The (2016)

aka: Kew’s Forgotten Queen

Director

Irene Antoniades

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £13.95

A BBC4 documentary about the unknown story of Marianne North, one of the most prolific botanical artists of the Victorian age. North embarked on a project that changed the face of botanical research. The...

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Fascism (1980)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £60.00

Describes the intellectual, political and economic origins of fascism and the courses of fascism in power in Europe between 1918 and 1945. It concentrates particularly on Italy and Germany in the context of...

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Errol Morris: Annual David Lean Lecture- Investigating with the Camera (2011)

Subject

Film & television production; Film studies

A video recording of the the 2011 David Lean Lecture given at BAFTA on 6 November by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who has won acclaim for combining journalism with dramatic recreation, confessional...

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